Guo Xu

Three SIOE @sioecon.bsky.social sessions on Sat 3rd Jan 2026 at @assameeting.bsky.social Philadelphia

0800-1000: Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion

1015-1215: Econometric Issues in Comparative Economics

1430-1630: Models of Autocracy

See you there!

This seems like a really exciting JMP - looking forward to reading it in more detail! ericnrobertson.github.io

SIOE 2026 at INSEAD Fontainebleau! 13-15 July. Call: www.sioe.org/conference/2...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Excited to host the All California (formerly All UC) economic history JM conference tomorrow — proud to keep this tradition alive and looking forward to the papers! events.berkeley.edu/events/event...

One of the basic rhetorical trick of Trumpism is to frame "accountability" to "being elected" rather than being answerable for your actions (which Trump avoids).
Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...

Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

A conversation with RPDE Postdoctoral Research Associate Miguel Ortiz: Understanding the economics of conflict, producing a radio drama, and more Note: This interview is the second in our series interviewing RPDE’s visitors. See the first with Eric Verhoogen here. Check back for our third with Jessica Goldberg soon.Before we welcome in an excit...

rpde.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.

Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics!

🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school

📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley

w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

So happy to see this forthcoming! A fantastic paper from a former Haas BPP student! @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social Congrats @yasirkhan.bsky.social super well deserved!

Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025.

The leading conference in the firms & development space!

Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.

General submission deadline: July 18.

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵

Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

❗️We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of crime. @chtraxler.bsky.social

⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today.

See details in the thread below 👇

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.

Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.

Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

great idea - we didn’t plan for it, but maybe next time!

Very excited about the first installment of the Berkeley Econ History Mini Conference — first edition being on econ history x political economy. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Today about a thousand folks Stood up for Science at Berkeley, and I was honored to be among them. Great energy — and it’s just the beginning
#SUFS

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins

Here is a link for those w/o FT subscriptions. The editorial is well worth reading.

on.ft.com/3DtbLM4

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins

"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.

Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard!

www.standup4scienceberkeley.com

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
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#EconSky

Today's #Kuznets2025 mini-conference celebrated the scholarship and teaching of Oriana Bandiera, and featured a lineup of fascinating new research.

Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants:
egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.

DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Opinion polls from before Germany's election (Infratest).

1) Social Democrats draw heavy criticism for unconditional handouts (Bürgergeld), seen as punishing the working poor. Same for neglecting the working class in general, Scholz not providing leadership.